cn coin 54571

Connected to Type

CN Type 21027 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

148-90/80 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ

Design

Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club, left hand on hip, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Monogram

(position: at the bottom left)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

16.87 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Gorny&Mosch 122 lot 1173

Literature

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 82, nr. 359  ❐

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 213f. ("thasian type")   ❐

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cn coin 54571, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_54571 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/15]

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